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hi i'm still alive! it is summer and life is outside and i am a bit sunburned and things are fine and good. also it is pride week!!

i wanna magic the time space continuum and be the little girl in 'fun house' back in my musical-theatre-baby days. how great is this?! a musical about a baby lesbian based on a graphic novel?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!



happy monday, swaggerers, wearers of dungarees.

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ALL THE THINGS! there's a song there. check it out, it has great horn-bits.

too busy running and dancing and working and making jokes and making plans, i have been neglecting this here blorg. just gonna throw all the various bits i had drafted to post and then didn't. lots to read, lots and lots woooo!

* gloria steinem quote

* kerry washington speech

* how to uphold white supremacy by focusing on diversity and inclusion

* for whose protection

* this is what the fashion industry thinks diversity looks like

* THIS BOOK LOOKS SO GOOD I WANT TO GET IT FOR EVERYONE aka illustrated feminist heroes abcs

* why i only read books by women in 2013 (hey i'm doing that this year!)

okay greatjob! i have a thing in my brain that i'm stoked about. shhhh. i'll tell y'all about it. soon.

happy friday!

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oh hi there. i just found some really amazing wallpaper on the internets, so i'm in a pretty good mood, i can't lie. and. here's a good tune for being in a pretty good mood, do some dancing or maybe some jumping. watch out, tho! you had better run...

happy monday! it's you i'll come for!

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IT IS MARCH IT IS BIRTHDAYMONTH!!!!

so there's that. also. this kickass weekend with emtits in town has left me tiiiired and happy and more informed about architecture than i was before. oh, wonderful friends, wonderful world. how do i even manage without you?

songza has been pumping up my workouts very effectively as of late. both the performance-enhancing pop run and the cool runnings 26.2 miles playlists are doing good things up in my ears. thanks for the jams, songza. but. EVEN MORE EXCITING is that i've got into some new podcasts, whuuuut?!



death sex & money with anna sale! so good. her laugh! it is the best bit.

and.

love & radio with nick van der kolk! a bit hit and miss in the episodes i've listened to so far, some poor recording quality or strange sound compositional choices, but on the whole enjoyable and different. (i went right to the beginning and there are four seasons, so... i'm willing to bet those kinks get worked out.) sometimes quite moving/affecting. the bullet episode had me really enthralled and uncomfortable. which is great podcasting, yo!

happy monday, podcast nerds!

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although i LOVED the 'everything is awesome' performace, and patricia arquette's speech, and graham moore's speech, i gotta give, hands down, best performance and moment of the oscars to 'glory'.

and sorry to my ladies (holla emma stone, lupita nyong'o), best dressed goes to david oyelowo in that red get-up, sir that is some fierce dressing.

happy monday, dapper dans.

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i was already feelin rather tired and a little hungover yesterday, damn you robbie & dutch blitz, and then i got elbowed in the face on the subway. so monday has been deleted this week, and we're gonna go ahead and start over today. whoop! okay! reset. good. i had baklava for breakfast. now the grammy bits that were best bits... (leaving out riri just because i juuuuust had that song up in here.)

 

 

come ON annie lennox! you are too freakin great, i can't: even. okay happy monuesday.

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i am feeling all dizzy and post-vacation emo j-lo, you know how it goes. heady and hollow but very happy. what a fantastic weekend i had! oof. real life. this is my real life!!

http://youtu.be/JCT_lgJ5eq8

(why can no embed today?!)

happy monday, light headed lovelies.

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we are doubling up today - saved my life and feminist monday. i planned on writing a wee bit about björk on friday, but honestly i just soaked in the new album and also the above tove lo song and had all the feels. oh the feels! you guys!! but also: so good. (reminds me a bit of medulla, which is my fave björk - intense close choral-ish harmonies that make me go ooooooof.) now on to the feminism.

{jessica hopper interviewing björk for pitchfork}

* the invisible woman: a conversation with björk

the whole interview is great, but particularly the discussion of women auteurs in music is worth reading.



happy monday, heart breakers and hearts broken.

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moooaaar daaaancing!



happy monday, bodies.

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let's have all videos be dance videos like this video, okay?



obviously. first time ever i've liked sia labeouf.

happy monday, thick skins, elastic hearts.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDVENT!

i can't believe how fast it is going, this month o' decem. ber.

this is almost too easy, this week's choice. prepare to play on repeat foreverrrrrrrrrr.



amen, amen, amen.

happy monday, mix masterz.

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tough week, tough weekend, turning to a toronto favourite, a true love, we have used it before, we will come back to it again and again. diana and carmen elle have saved my life often.



happy monday, hoping for a better week.

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duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's yoncé.

(i could have put up a video of me & lissa singing 'firework' or 'like a prayer' or 'scrubs' or 'we can't stop'... but i have a feeling that you had to be there to experience the true epic joy that was pouring out our faces... also no one filmed it. so lucky you. god bless that tiny karaoke room with incongruous videos of completely random stuff.)



i wanna be the redhead with the bow top. also jay-z doing a cameo-roll-through makes me like him WAY more that i used to.

happy monday, knee pad dancers!

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sometimes i'm just not feeling inspired on monday and i look and look for something to save my life, and it just isn't happenin.

this is a lesson: wait. something perfectly groovy is about to happen. oh you groovy oldschool beats! just exactly what i was looking for.



(can't find the full video to embed, so you can go here for the dancemoves.)

happy tuesday, funk masters!

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top of my playlist for some weeks now, just can't get sick of it:



happy monday, models.

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i have a new love, you guys. i am all swoons and sighs and i can barely stop thinking about it long enough to listen to my other podcasts.

the memory palace

ooof! beautiful beautiful little glimmering vials of history. so well told.
i listened to my first episode on a night walk with margene. perfectly crisp fall air. and the story of a singer. and of other people's bodies, other people's pains. and i wanted the moment, the walk, to go on forever, it was so moving. i encourage you to listen to that episode first:

* other bodies

i've now gone right through them all. i want more. i am delighted.
happy monday, passing time.

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oh! good day.
an old classic dancetime today. with a story.



this weekend i learned that the human person i live with, whom you might know to be quite a smart human person, has thought, for years and years, that this song contained the lyrics:

'you know i'll take you to the tub...'
instead of: 'i'll take you to the top...'

funny, sure.

but what is truly great is that she assumed that to 'take it to the tub' was some sexy-party saying that she just didn't know when she first heard the song, being a young lady in elementary school not well versed in grown-up-partying and sexy-times.

and she has been making jokes based on this assumption. for years. years and years. a million tub-based partying jokes that NO ONE EVER GOT. and only last week did she learn the truth.

and that is great. just great.

happy monday, soakers.

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remember when there was all that music? yeah. at e&c's wedding party? that was amazing. sigh. just rememberin that time. OH HEY! look at what i found:



happy monday, beautiful voices.

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happy monday, public singers.

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sylvan esso! this album was on my brand-new-stuff-for-walking-around-scotland-emo-styles playlist. very good. meadows music. 'wild winters. warm coffee.' & 'blazing summer. cold coffee.'



(also, in another of their songs. 'get on the train, get on the train & ride until you're home.')
happy monday, foggy walkers.